dhclient.leases, dhclient6.leases

DHCP client database of acquired leases

Name:

/var/db/dhclient.leases for DHCPv4

/var/db/dhclient6.leases for DHCPv6

Description:

The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP client keeps a persistent database
of leases that it has acquired that are still valid. The database is
a free-form ASCII file containing one valid declaration per lease. If
more than one declaration appears for a given lease, the last one in
the file is used. The file is written as a log, so this is not an unusual occurrence.

The format of the lease declarations is described in the entry for
dhclient.conf.

Contributing author:

dhclient was written by Ted Lemon under a contract with Vixie Labs.
Funding for this project was provided by Internet Systems Consortium.
Information about Internet Systems Consortium can be found at
http://www.isc.org.